In Which I Destroy My Tech-Savvy Reputation

I present: the latest tale of website woe, the saga of my hosting account.

I host my website with GoDaddy. Yes, I know there are better web hosts. I've stuck with them because they're cheap, I can pay monthly, and I've never had any serious problems with them. In fact, I still haven't. Sadly, I can cause problems all on my own.

Somewhere along the line I was gifted with a few free economy hosting credits for domain names I've bought. Recently, when I needed to make a payment on deliberatepixel.com, I had the idea of using a credit. Perfect, right? But alas, these mysterious credits are for hosting setup only, not monthly hosting and bandwidth fees - a fact which you can only discover by trying to use one, since the rest of the site and help section seems convinced they don't actually exist. And despite the fact the system told me I could not set it up on the already active dp.com, it apparently did just that anyway, thereby obliterating all of my previously uploaded files. So my website right now is basically gone.

It's not a huge deal - of course I have backups of everything, and I have a new design I was going to upload soon anyway. All things considered, it actually helped to clear out a bunch of junk I didn't need anymore. But it's frustating I have to rebuild everything, and that I still can prove myself to be so technicaly incompetent that I erase my entire website. The geek pride smarts.

In better computer-related news, my work computer is brand-new and super-powered, AND I have a twenty-inch widescreen monitor. 1680 by 1050 anyone? It's yummy.